Dictionary of world biography / / Barry Jones.
Jones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and t...
Saved in:
Superior document: | ANU Lives Series in Biography |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : : Australian National University E Press,, 2015. |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Second edition. |
Language: | English |
Series: | ANU.Lives series in biography.
|
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (938 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Summary: | Jones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977-98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983-90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987-90 and Customs 1988-90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991-95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992-2000, 2005-06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860- (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. |
---|---|
ISBN: | 1925022250 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Barry Jones. |